Salad Dressing to restore Artwork
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Monday, 04 June 07 - 04:36 PM (GMT +12:00) By John Dierckx in Arts |
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Every now and then you stumble upon an interesting article. This was certainly one that raised my attention. I have always liked frescoes and have been amazed by their beauty more than once. But.... they fade, and get destroyed. By the looks of it not any longer.
Salad Dressing-Like Mix Restores Art
Scientists at the University of Florence, Italy, have discovered that the oil-in-water microemulsion — basically tiny droplets of oil suspended in water — can penetrate a painting’s pores and scrub away grime and acrylic resins.
The potion has proven particularly effective in cleaning frescoes that had been coated in thick layers of paraloid, an acrylic copolymer widely used by conservators in the 1960s. While the paraloid was intended to offer a protective coating for artworks, it turns out the aging of the acrylic, and reactions with calcium salts beneath the coating, produce a disastrous effect decades after the treatment.
"All the colors, especially the background, appear darker and the coated surface is very shiny," chemist Piero Baglioni and colleagues at the University of Florence wrote in the current issue of the American Chemical Society journal, Langmuir.
Previously, organic solvents, traditionally used in restoration, have been ineffective in removing the acrylic copolymer.
"Conventional techniques can remove polymeric material at the surface, but they are almost completely useless in cleaning paraloid from the porous structure of the frescoes. In this case, we found that something like salad dressing can be a great alternative," Baglioni told Discovery News.
Red more here: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/06/01/
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Angelique van Woerkom World Class Photography
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Sunday, 18 February 07 - 11:53 PM (GMT +12:00) By John Dierckx in Arts |
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The other day I had the pleasure of catching up again with one of my life long friends, Angelique van Woerkom. What a fantastic girl!. Now normally I would not refer to someone my age as boy or girl but Angelique has this child like emotion I personally cherish so much. It is all about seeing the world with fresh eyes. That is exactly what she does for a living and she is great at it: way back in my tmes as a rock guitarist and still as someone that captures more than just an image. It is not often you meet someone with this special quality and perhaps, being the same, I
loved catching up so much. It is, at least in my opinion exactly this childlike emotion, the freshness, that is being so fantastically represnted in her work, makingI know Angelique from way back, already back than she had this gift of capturing these special moments during a concert, without a doubt because of her profound understanding of the music she is listening to while shooting these amazing pictures. And just look at Keith here on the right perfect timing I would say. A man in action but caught in a very special and intimate moment. That is the Angelique we all know and learned to love.
I was so happy to hear that her photography career has been taking off and all I would like to do is share the pleasure of looking at a genuine Angelique van Woerkom. There are many more beautiful pictures to be found on her site at http://www.angeliquevanwoerkom.nl. But now for a better idea, contact her and be assured that your next editorial is as fresh as can be, call her when you want to make your next magazine or catalogue look just that extra bit special: every new picture a new and fresh look on life, living and the models themselves.
As a reference here are some of her "stats":
Education
Royal Academie of Fine Arts,
The Hague
The Netherlands
1990 - 1994
Expositions
1993 • Kunsthal Rotterdam • ‘Rock around the camera’
1996 • NeMo (New Metropolis) Amsterdam • portraits on flightcases
2005 • Dudok Rotterdam • dj’s of Club Las Palmas Books:
200 studioportraits of youth between 16 en 21 years old, photographed between 2002 and 2004
Films
Moving Faces (2006)
Editorial & Commercial
International Film Festival Rotterdam
De Filmkrant
Nationaal Pop Instituut Amsterdam
MOJO concerts
Gemeente Rotterdam
Algemeendagblad/RD
VX Company
Doeners en Durfals
Max Models
Codarts Rotterdam
Independent Films
Club Las Palmas
Plan International
Art by Catherine Leyreloup
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Thursday, 11 January 07 - 01:30 AM (GMT +12:00) By John Dierckx in Arts |
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Recently I stumbled upon the profile of Catherine Leyreloup: a fine artist and photographer. I followed the link to her website and was amazed by the
brilliance of the paintings found there.
She is a well appreciated so don't just take my word for it.
"A young vivacious and articulate painter and photographer....."
(J.Kennedy Melling - journalist and critic)
Meridian Line Magazine, published August 1996)"Her new paintings communicate her sense of joy and are evocative in their visual excitement. They both retain her freshness of original inspiration and are an exciting reference to their natural source.
They are unashamedly beautiful."
(Art Lecturer, Goldsmiths College, University of London ,February 2000)
Check it out yourself at Art by Leyreloup.
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